@ the boss: yay armies!
@ tech groups: to sum up, we have 3 proposals on the table right now. I've withdrawn the first Pode method from contention, it makes too many people western. The second Pode method is based on hard standards for how many provinces "should" have maxed out schools. Right now a standard of 2 in 7 maxed is what's been tested & gives the 2/1 west east split. The 2 in 7 parameter especially is up for adjustment if the results aren't to our liking. The key thing is the fixed standard relative to the fixed ROW.
Idhrendur prefers groups based on % of max learning score, i.e. most developed schools. I went through this to get to the fixed standards, so the 52%/20%/5%/23% thresholds I came up with for this approach have the same thought process behind them as my fixed standard approach. This will always give a reasonable distribution of tech within the ck2 area, but may not accurately reflect tech relative to ROW.
The third option is a culture/geographical mapping. I can see this applying for Greek traditionalism and Muslim use of Arabic preventing use of the printing press, otherwise I just don't find this sort of determinism credible. So if you want this system, you get to define it.
I'd like to throw out a 4th contender, the johnjohansson method, since he just gave me the idea. CK2 "ending" techs spec out a tech level historically achieved by endgame for various cultural/religious groups. We could map those groups to EU3 groups, compare achieved tech to this historical standard, and westernize or easternize realms that achieved significantly more or less tech development than their historical level. This would be more culturally /geographically driven, encompass more factors of tech development than just schools, and still be a fixed historical standard. I'm going to work on fleshing this approach out.
@ tech groups: to sum up, we have 3 proposals on the table right now. I've withdrawn the first Pode method from contention, it makes too many people western. The second Pode method is based on hard standards for how many provinces "should" have maxed out schools. Right now a standard of 2 in 7 maxed is what's been tested & gives the 2/1 west east split. The 2 in 7 parameter especially is up for adjustment if the results aren't to our liking. The key thing is the fixed standard relative to the fixed ROW.
Idhrendur prefers groups based on % of max learning score, i.e. most developed schools. I went through this to get to the fixed standards, so the 52%/20%/5%/23% thresholds I came up with for this approach have the same thought process behind them as my fixed standard approach. This will always give a reasonable distribution of tech within the ck2 area, but may not accurately reflect tech relative to ROW.
The third option is a culture/geographical mapping. I can see this applying for Greek traditionalism and Muslim use of Arabic preventing use of the printing press, otherwise I just don't find this sort of determinism credible. So if you want this system, you get to define it.
I'd like to throw out a 4th contender, the johnjohansson method, since he just gave me the idea. CK2 "ending" techs spec out a tech level historically achieved by endgame for various cultural/religious groups. We could map those groups to EU3 groups, compare achieved tech to this historical standard, and westernize or easternize realms that achieved significantly more or less tech development than their historical level. This would be more culturally /geographically driven, encompass more factors of tech development than just schools, and still be a fixed historical standard. I'm going to work on fleshing this approach out.