Deg Tegh Fateh: Intro/Beta version

[Fishman786]

Deg Tegh Fateh v. 0.6 released.


Download here:
http://www.gamefront.com/files/21553...Tegh+Fateh.rar


Main changes:
Ton of new provinces in Sindh, Gujurat and Rajputana

Changes to flags and such

All known crashes fixed, 30 year run as Ottomans is completely stable

Missions altered (some Vanilla missions improved, some new ones fixed)

Same with decisions

Annnnnddd...

Here's the surprise Vaisakhi present!Every single vanilla province in the world has been redrawn with better, more natural borders! There is not a single province in the entire map left which still has the old, curved smooth Vanilla borders.

Well, actually there are a few, but only Japan and Sumatra, which have small enough borders not to really need redrawing. And the wasteland provinces, mostly.

Screenshots (right-click/view image for a better look):


New provinces in southwest India


All-new chinese borders, compared with Vanilla


New borders in Peru, compared with Vanilla


New borders in Indochina, compared with Vanilla

Changelog:

Deg Tegh Fateh changelist

v. 0.6
India:
New provinces in Rajasthan, Gujurat and Sindh areas

Map:
All Vanilla land borders in the world (except Japan) redrawn to look more natural

Graphics:
Better flag for Scandinavia (not Kalmar Union)
Ottoman flag adjusted
New flag for Rajputana

Bugs:
Errors in 'form Sicily' decision fixed
'noreligion' provinces fixed
All new provinces have been assigned to regions and continents
Various parse error-related problems solved
Crash caused by buildings.gfx (new religion group) solved
Various missions fixed

v. 0.5
India:
New terrain in the Himalayas
New provinces in Punjab

map:
DAO-based map with lots of new provinces
new province borders to create interesting coastal straits in river estuaries etc
more impassable mountains in switzerland and the pyranees
base tax rebalances- more tax and manpower in Poland, Maghreb, Ottoman Empire, Granada and Russia, slightly less in Castille
Castille no longer has cores on Granada
France no longer has cores on flanders, antwerp etc.
Byzantium only has cores on Greek-cultured provinces, plus the opposite side of the sea of marmara
Catalan cores added to the map
Northumbrian cores removed
No HRE in Poland
No HRE in Provence (for balance reasons)
appropriate changes to cultures in the middle east
Florence mini-mod features
No Burgundian or French cores on Barrois
Core for Parma at game start!


culture:
New culture group: bedouin
new cultures: old Turkish, Hedjazi, Najdi, Omani, Yemeni, Kurdish, Afghani
Byzantine group renamed to Turco-Byzantine
Turkish is in Turco-Byzantine group
Azerbaijani moved to Iranian group
Hungarian moved to South Slavic group
Poland is the west slavic union TAG


Decisions:
Florence mini mod features
National formation decisions for Austria, Poland, Westphalia, Greece, Arabia, Mongol Khanate, Sicily
Ottoman decision: Ottoman Kalifah- makes TUR the union tag for turco-semitic culture
Ottoman decisions: release bosnia and release serbia
Some modified requirements for khalifah decisions
'German Nation' is now more balanced for countries other than prussia
'release Granada' decision for Spain/Castille


New countries:
Arabia
florence mini mod features

Missions:
Austria - Conquer Salzburg
Bavaria - Conquer Augsburg
Castille - Crush the Aragonese
Ottomans - Conquer Syria
austrian mission changes
Ottoman mision changes
Brandenburg mission changes
Venetian mission changes
Castillian mission changes

Buildings:
Anti-spy constructions are more useful
Manufactories give a slightly bigger tech rate boost
Temples and level 1 forts do not need magistrates
Buildings before level 4 are never destroyed, and buildings above that are kept if you have a core


Graphics:
CaptRobau's Folded Paper Map Mini-Mod
florence mini mod features
New flag - Punjab
New flag - Germany
New flag - HRE
New flag - Arabia
New flag - Russia
New flag - Netherlands
New flag - Ottomans
New flag - Denmark
New flag - Scotland
New flag - Burgundy
New flag - Yemen
New flag - Achaea
New flag - Byzantium
New flag - Scandinava
New flag - Cornwall
New flag - Mongol Khanate
New flag - Rajputana
New colour - England
New colour - UK
New colour - France
new colour - Punjab
New colour - Timurids
New colours - Japanese Minors
New colour - Prussia (prussian blue!)
New colour - Scotland
New colour - Byzantium
New colour - Demark
New colour - Mughals
New colour - Kashmir

Governments
Steppe hordes deactived

Ideas:
Millitary drill rebalanced
Some naval ideas changed
QftNW- even more colonial range, enough for castille/spain to reach the canaries in 1492
Merchanty crud ideas rebalaned
Scientific revolution made awesome

History:
Florence mini mod features
DAOlite changes to Ottomans etc.
All steppe hordes replaced with tribal governments
Aztecs, Incas are despotic monarchies
Algeria, Tunisia, Hedjaz are despotic monarchies
Granada starts in 1399 as a Castillian vassal

Other:
New straits in interesting places
Mamlukes, Timurids and the Golden Horde get a nasty modifier after 1410
HRE rules slow French expansion into Germany- 90% chance of the AI freeing a non-core imperial province.
Ottoman tolerance nerfed, kalifah more effective
Merchantilism is now worth using
Defender of the faith is disabled (it costs an insane amount of gold)
Rebalanced tech groups

[redgreen99]

Province borders look great! Bet that took awhile.

[Fishman786]

Province borders look great! Bet that took awhile.

Don't really have anything better to do with my time...

It only took a day. All day. By the end I must have been seeing squiggles and coloured patches in bed...

[Magnive]

... What have you done to my pretty danish red? *Nationalist rebel uprising!*

Anyways, this looks interesting :P

[Fishman786]

... What have you done to my pretty danish red? *Nationalist rebel uprising!*

Anyways, this looks interesting :P

It's now nice and yellow like your coat of arms. The combination of light red and light yellow looks nice, IMO.


The real reason is that I wanted to make the British Empire pink, and Denmark looked too similar. But then I changed my mind on that when Britain didn't look right.

[generalolaf]

Watching this closely. I'll prbably wait until the dawn of a new PC to download it, but I'm sure I will, it looks great

[Vegose]

This is fantastic, I will probably mostly play this now as long as the lag doesnt skkyrocket with a new version

[videonfan]

India needs more love than vanilla gives it

[Fishman786]

This is fantastic, I will probably mostly play this now as long as the lag doesnt skkyrocket with a new version

Indeed, I'm trying to avoid that. No high-res textures, and very few new tags are the rules.


I'm working on the new Indian provinces for 0.7 atm. It's been a nightmare doing central and south India, since the British-period maps I'm using mainly show a chaotic patchwork of princely states. Unlike Punjab, which was largely annexed as a single piece of territory, with a few exceptions like Patiala.

[anubisfike]

This looks extremely promising. Will definitely give it a try when it's out of beta/closer to 'official' release.

[lukew]

This looks great. It's about time India got some love, and it certainly needs a ton of new provinces. Are there any balance issues with the colonisation of India out of interest?

[Fishman786]

This looks great. It's about time India got some love, and it certainly needs a ton of new provinces. Are there any balance issues with the colonisation of India out of interest?

I don't know as of yet. India isn't finished, the next version (0.7) will have all the new Indian provinces (making a total of 63), but tax/manpower values will not be balanced until later, probably in 0.8.


Unfortunately, the EU3 AI doesn't really seem to like colonising India. A few extra missions might help, to give Portugal, the Netherlands, France and of course England a foothold. ATM they just have a few general 'take an Indian port' missions, but they should really get some actual conquest missions for specific provinces.


The real balance problems are not going to be with colonisation from the south, but from the north and west. Historically, India was repeatedly invaded from Persia and Afghanistan by powerful Islamic empires with advanced technology and fearsome warriors. The Mughals were the most famous of these invaders, and like most others before them, they 'went native' and became an Indian kingdom in their own right. Later, Persians under Nadir Shah and Afghans under Ahmed Shah Durrani would make the same journey, attempting to destroy the Mughals themselves. The Persians and the Afghans both had considerable sucess, but their advances didn't last long. Nadir Shah's empire didn't outlast his death, despite capturing Delhi and bringing the Mughals to the brink of destruction.

The northern attackers were opposed by various forces from the south. The Mughals faced Hindu kings, and also the native Islamic sultanates of the Deccan region, who themselves warred with the Vijayanagara Empire, an enormous south Indian Hindu kingdom commanded by the great city of Vijayanagar. Vijayanagar was larger than Paris and possibly even Constantinople, but it was eventually razed and wiped from the face of the earth by the Deccan sultans, leaving only the massive ruins that surround the modern village of Hampi. Later in their rule, the Mughals also had to defend themselves against the Maratha Empire, a powerful grouping of southern Hindu states based near modern Mumbai and commanded by the legendary ruler Shivaji. The Marathas would beat back the Mughals, and eventually expand their domains to the borders of the Punjab and the gates of Delhi.
The combined Persian and Maratha invasions weakened the Mughal Empire drastically, creating a power vacuum that would be exploited by an old enemy: Afghanistan. After the death of Nadir Shah, Afghans under Ahmed Shah Durrani declared independence. They soon invaded Punjab through the Khyber Pass, inflicting catastrophic defeats on the Mughals and Marathas alike. However, the Durranis didn't take into account the Sikhs, who had been in ascendency in the Punjab since 1699. The Sikh enclaves in Punjab lead a series of uprisings and millitary campaigns against Ahmed Shah, forcing him to invade the region again and again, each time with the intention of exterminating the Sikhs. These attempts all failed, and Ahmed Shah died without an Indian empire to call his own. Sikh millitary communes called Misls took over from the Afghans, and these would be the foundation stones of Ranjit Singh's Sikh Empire, which would conquer much of Afghanistan and seal the Khyber Pass for good (or at least until 2001).

Managing the balance between Persia and India will be the tricky part. Indian states never really invaded Persia and Afghanistan themselves, but Afghans and Persians found it very difficult to maintain a direct hold without 'Indianising' themselves. Of course, since EU3 AI doesn't like to pay attention to cultural and geographical divides, it's going to be hard to keep a good balance between the superpowers of Persia and the Ganges.

[anubisfike]

the next version (0.7) will have all the new Indian provinces (making a total of 63)

I can't wait! What's your estimate for the release? This is pretty much all I wanted to wait on and I thought it may take a while longer.

[Fishman786]

I can't wait! What's your estimate for the release? This is pretty much all I wanted to wait on and I thought it may take a while longer.

Not sure. This week, possibly later.

The new provinces won't be balanced though. At the moment they are all basically clones of whichever province they were split off from. Editing all the history files will be a big job, probably for version 0.8.

0.9 will have the new events and gameplay mechanisms.


It's probably best to wait until 1.0 or 0.9 if you want to have an interesting and fun game with an Indian country. Before that it's just like vanilla with more provinces.

[DanubianCossak]

Looking great, love all the new provinces

Got one technical question (if you dont mind), how do you edit positions? Do you use the old or new editor?

[Fishman786]

Looking great, love all the new provinces

Got one technical question (if you dont mind), how do you edit positions? Do you use the old or new editor?

I enter them into the text files manually.



Just kidding, I use the Clausewitz position editor.

[DanubianCossak]

I enter them into the text files manually.

Yes, i spent lots of time doing that, long time ago though

[Fishman786]

Yes, i spent lots of time doing that, long time ago though

Which editor do you use? Are there any drag-and-drop ones? I would love to just be able to click on the map and have the editor work out the co-ordinates, rather than stab randomly in the dark until I can see the thing.

[DanubianCossak]

I use the same editor, although there were 2 versions, one for pre DW and one for DW specifically. I use the one where you need to flip provinces.bmp manually for it to load properly (so the older one essentially).

As for drag and drop, i suspect Paradox wizards (ie developers) use something like that (even better), only its not available to us mere mortals.

[anubisfike]

Any progress towards 0.7? I'm really excited!