Just checking that you knew about the Norse culture missing the following lines:
Code:
male_patronym = "sson"
female_patronym = "sdottir"
prefix = no # The patronym is added as a suffix
I personally add this to the Norman culture as well:
Code:
male_patronym = "Fitz"
prefix = yes
Yes, and it's a decision I've consciously made, though I have yet to decide on it finally. My reasoning is that the patronyms would virtually
all be distorted (which I'm sure is that case for many other patronyms in other cultures of the game). What we see in game is jarring grammatical errors that we have no means to correct with the current system. The Norse names are all (or at least should be standardized to) using the nominative, for example: Ragnarr, Haraldr, Þοrkell, Hákon, Óláfr, Sigurðr etc. You can't simply put a standard suffix on them since they depend on various grammatical rules to form a genitive that is used for the patronym: Ragnars, Haralds, Þοrkels, Hákonar, Óláfs, Sigurðar, etc. With the current system we simply have the suffix put behind the nominative (because we assume that all names have a genitive ending in s): Ragnarrsson, Haraldrsson, Þοrkellsson, Hákonsson, Óláfrsson, Sigurðrsson - these should be correctly: Ragnarsson, Haraldsson, Þοrkelsson, Hákonarson, Óláfsson, Sigurðarson. So, in lack of any other solution I decided to leave them out for the Norse characters (but keep them in for the more modern Scandinavian names since they follow the template of an s-genitive with the loss of the nominative -l/-r indicator). As I said, there are other cultures that suffer similar problems with this simplified system, for example the (Gall)-Goídel who have a complicated genitive system where, for example, the nominative Ímar becomes genitive hÍmair, etc.
Well the loss of provinces in Scotland and Ireland doesn't have much to with following the direction the Vanilla DLC's dictates as it does with the fact that we've been a bit excuberant with the number of provinces added in the past, down through the various overhauls that have been done and as we near the end of our overhaul of the map, SWMH is starting to feel the strain of the total number of provinces added (Whoever is suggesting to expand vanilla to include East Asia is crazy, have them come talk to us).
We've found ourselves wanting to go back and re-check earlier overhauls we've done to make sure we've not added unnecessary dead-weight or we've not added something that isn't particularly historical (we're just human too, with everyday lives, so mistakes do happen. And our internal debate culture and way of doing overhauls have become a lot more standardized since i joined the team) And no region goes free from this double check that we've been doing. Africa to give you an example have born the biggest brunt of our cuts. 3 times as many provinces have been cut from Africa than from Europe.
And it turned out the more we digged into Ireland and the more we digged into Scotland the more subdivisions we found that was anachronisms based more on 17th-21st Century Irish subdivisions than it was on Medieval Irish subdivisions, with very incomplete or copy-pasted title histories (which is usually not a good sign of the period relevance of a split off from a neighbouring province.) Also the province number that Ireland used to have was disproportionate to that of the neighbouring Kingdoms. It gave Ireland a military and economic basis in the game that didn't match at all with medieval reality and resulted in not just frequent occurences of a United AI Ireland, but in a United AI Ireland making steady inroads into Wales and other parts of Britain.
I'm not telling you what direction you should take for the submod, i would never dream of doing that because that is of course completely up to you. If you want to continue with our old setup, then you have our full support for that. I'm just clearing up a little misunderstanding you seem to have about the current direction that me and my partners in crime is leading SWMH down towards.
I understand your reasoning completely, and my critique above has mostly been directed at Paradox' chosen direction (and loss of European focus); I hope you will never venture into their folly if they decide to expand even further east: it is simply not possible with the current engine. I still, however, maintain that the major eastern expansion was unnecessary, and that I personally prefer the main part of the limited amount of provinces to be invested in Europe; I find it unlikely that you would have cut away provinces (rather than just lowered the amount of possible holdings) if it weren't for the fact that these provinces were needed elsewhere; it might be true that Ireland has had a disproportionate amount of provinces, but having gotten used to that, and as it's one of my favourite areas, it is very hard to be reconciled with the bland post-HL Ireland (it bears a resemblance to going from the glorious SWMH map back to Vanilla, even if that is far from the case).