(MOD) More Provinces Mod

[DanubianCossak]

As the title says: MPM is back:

More Provinces Mod

Current Version:

Version 8.0: http://www.mediafire.com/?t1izqrctr7mpyaa [08-05-13] #NEW#


Version 8.0 1.1 CMPM (Cultural More Province Mod) by Maksas: http://www.mediafire.com/download/r7...5/CMPM_8.0.rar [17-06-13] #NEW VERY HOT#

Version 8.0 1.0 CMPM (Cultural More Province Mod) by Maksas: http://www.mediafire.com/download/8x...x/CMPM_8.0.rar [12-06-13]
CMPM patch: http://www.mediafire.com/download/cv..._8.0_files.rar



Previous Versions:

Version 7.9: http://www.mediafire.com/?63sr1m07vl1oh97 [18-04-13]

Disclaimer

More Provinces Mod began as an attempt to better model Russian Principalities through the addition of more provinces. In doing so, Russia became disproportionately unbalanced compared to Europe, requiring more provinces to be added to the rest of Europe. Since then, the mod has worked to achieve both ideal game balance and historical accuracy in Europe and around the world through the addition of many many new provinces, new countries, many new chained events and many other flavored events and decisions.

Credits

The team:

DanubianCossak - scripter // balancer, map maker, creator of events, decisions, the guy behind the mod.
polskaGOLA - map maker and researcher, also known as Zealous Polack and "Lwow will be Polish!" - guy, SIEMKA and DC's trusted PR person.
Nihtantuel - 'trusted' Eastern Europe/Central Asia adviser and general researcher, might be a secret Zionist. (according to Michael - DC)

A BIG thank you go to Modestus for his excellent texture pack
as well as Trin Tragula for his awesomely detailed Oriental Mod whose parts have been integrated into MPM.

Mod Mottos:

In Niht we trust!

Taxation without representation!

Installation instructions:

Mod was created using the latest patch for Divine Wind, it may work with other versions, but i will not support bugs etc related to old versions.

A few words about mod: It all started as an idea to add a few provinces here and there, but sort of quickly turned into a whole Eastern Europe overhaul. After that was done, i thought why not rework Europe and other areas as well so here we are.

If you play this mod for a while you will most likely notice that many decisions/events have also been reworked. Nations like Spain, Russia, Italy etc. will now have more than one set of requirements to form them, so Castille for example, doesnt need to hold as many Spanish key provinces if it currently have ruler with DIP rating of 9 compared to requirements of say, 6 etc.

Please note that in this stage mod is designed to be played only from 1399. start. Game is fully playable from any other date, however it will look weird as i havent really added history data for all new provinces etc.

If you see any mistakes in any area really, please post here or send me a pm and ill do my best to fix them for the next release.

Since i cannot find the original thread i would just like to thank all those who helped me, or allowed me to include their work in my mod. I *think* i have permission to use everything that was included in download, if however that is not true, please notify me, i will apologize and remove any such files.

A BIG thank you go to Modestus for his excellent texture pack
as well as Trin Tragula for his awesomely detailed Oriental Mod whose parts i have started integrating into MPM.

[DanubianCossak]

Screenshots say more than words, so see for yourself:

[Comontorios]

Brilliant work! I think the map actually looks tidier and better organized than the original.

[DanubianCossak]

Thx Comontoris!

If im not mistaken youre using Tunisian flag as avatar?

Would you happen to have some knowledge about the area? Im currently working on Maghreb countries, could really use any ideas for revolter states! Or any state thats missing in 1399. that general area REALLY needs some love!

[Comontorios]

Sorry to disappoint you, but I'm afraid I don't know much about the area at all. I just picked the flag because I thought it looked good.

[Autonomous]

Provinces... so square!

Y U NO BORDER-FJORDS?!

[DanubianCossak]

Provinces... so square!

Y U NO BORDER-FJORDS?!

Can you be more specific? Squarish look is sadly unavoidable at this point. It comes from adding more smaller provinces. If you dislike a certain province-province border, take an in game screenshot, edit the correct borders in paint and post it here, ill make corrections, it takes about 30 seconds do it.

I didnt quite get the fjords part.

[TheFreez]

I didnt quite get the fjords part.

I think he means borders in the shape of fjords.

Looks awesome, I'll try it! You can probably make borders look really good.

[DanubianCossak]

New version is out:

-Missions are now back, a whole bunch is specially designed to work with mod. For now conquest missions (specific ones) mostly work for European region
-Maghreb countries adjusted more according to 1399. state of things. New cultures and stuff. Need more feedback on Arab revolters, historic and plausable!
-Russian provinces moved around a bit to create better look.
-Teutonic/Livonian provinces also moved a bit for prettier looks.
-Bunch of Italian minor changes.
-All map related bugs should be fixed now.

Preview of the 2.2 version, current look of Italy and other bits, after some slight cosmetic changes, what you all think?



ATM working on moving a couple of small Turkish Anatolian provinces to middle east/Egypt.

Could really use any ideas for possible Muslim world revolters/additional provinces etc.

I have also fixed/upgraded whole bunch of missions as well.

[xcrissxcrossx]

Here are some Muslim World revolter ideas I have.
Nubia/Makuria
Axum/Aksum
Dagestan (revolter from Golden Horse/Ottoman Empire)
Caucasia

[DanubianCossak]

Here are some Muslim World revolter ideas I have.
Nubia/Makuria
Axum/Aksum
Dagestan (revolter from Golden Horse/Ottoman Empire)
Caucasia

I plan to rework Ethiopia and Nubia some time soon. So i think ill add something there.

Ill do some reading on Dagestan, thx for that one.

Some time ago i added Circassia which covers region of Dagestan and Caucasia + sea coast toward Krim. Unless i missed something i think its spot on.

Would you happen to know of some country/city state that existed anywhere between Morocco and Mamluke Egypt?

Or somewhere on the Arabian peninsula?

[Selukon]

Looks a bit squarish for my tastes, but otherwise pretty nice, might give it a try at some point.

[Chamboozer]

Would you happen to know of some country/city state that existed anywhere between Morocco and Mamluke Egypt?

You could always just pick random Arabic names and make them theoretical 'dynasties' that could have sprung up from some local tribal movement.


Ayyubids, Binyāmīnids, Davudids, Harunids, Ibrahimids, Ishaqids, Yaqubids, Suleimanids, etc.

[lukew]

1.) make clean copy of EU DW (and only EU DW), instal last patch and all that
2.) download MPM latest version (in this post above), unrar it somewhere (make a new folder on desktop for example)
3.) go to your EU DW folder, find history folder, delete all folders inside except first one, advisors (IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!), then go to events folder and delete all files inside as well.
4.) go back to the folder where you extracted MPM mod files, select everything and copy-paste those files back to EU DW folder.
5.) go to EU DW/map/cashe folder and delete its contents.
6.) start game and have fun.
7.) i highly recommend that you also delete complete contents of missions folder, as i havent had time to adapt most missions to work with my mod. Vanilla missions will most likely cause weird bugs to occur (specially with Byzantines etc).

You should make a version of this available for the mod folder. Although extend = "map" doesn't work, replace = "map" does so you could do that and just paste in the other files. Also, tripoli didn't exist in 1399 and was owned by Tunisia.

[lukew]

Please add provinces in India, I know this is for Europe and North Africa but India is SO INACCURATE. It should have about four times more provinces!

[DanubianCossak]

You should make a version of this available for the mod folder. Although extend = "map" doesn't work, replace = "map" does so you could do that and just paste in the other files. Also, tripoli didn't exist in 1399 and was owned by Tunisia.

If i can make it work within mod folder system, ill repack it for one of the future versions (maybe even today, i just reworked Russia and Spain).

In latest version Tripoli should be vassal of Tunisia as from what i could read it was ruled by the same dynasty different branch.

Please add provinces in India, I know this is for Europe and North Africa but India is SO INACCURATE. It should have about four times more provinces!

Like i said in mod thread ~ version 1.0 i wouldnt mind working on ANY area in the world, but i sadly i have no personal knowledge of India. If you can be a bit more specific and provide me with a link (wikipedia, map, whatever) that shows any missing province/country/whatever id be more than willing to add it. Remember i need flag (sample) which i can then convert to game required format, i will need a ruler name (1399) and some sort of map to start with.

[DanubianCossak]

You could always just pick random Arabic names and make them theoretical 'dynasties' that could have sprung up from some local tribal movement.


Ayyubids, Binyāmīnids, Davudids, Harunids, Ibrahimids, Ishaqids, Yaqubids, Suleimanids, etc.

Chris thats an interesting suggestion. Do you think i should add them as revolters attached to roughly historical cultures/area or add their cores in 1399?

[Chamboozer]

The best solution would be to make separate revolters based around the larger cities - Oran, Constantine, Fez, Marrakech etc. - then have them tag switch to a country named after whatever dynasty happens to pop up to rule it. That would take a lot of extra tags though, don't know if you would want to do that.

I was in the midst of doing this in my Ottoman mod when I lost it, though don't even know if it's possible to fire an event based on dynasty name. I think I remember having figured out how to do it.

[DanubianCossak]

Well i think you can simulate something like that by making subcultures (1 for each tag) and then attaching ONLY one dynasty per tag. So for example, culture for Haffsid country would be Haffsid Arab, and only 1 dynasty, Haffsid would be default for it. That way each time country pops up, that one will be set as default. The only problem is that through royal marriage triggered event(s) and whatnot over time dynasty will be changed, without possibility to dynamically change country name to match it, but on the other hand, if the current dynasty dies out (for whatever reason) since there is only 1 default entry, Haffsid would be picked again by "one of the nobles" who replaces your heir.

[DanubianCossak]

New version is out.

Added country of Pavia.
Re-did province shapes in Brandenburg/Pommerania, Bohemia as well as France.
Luneburg now vassal of Brunswick.
Lots of minor stuff.