[1.2?] Restore Byzantine Empire decision

[PAnZuRiEL]

I have no idea whether or not this was actually changed by the last patch, but I picked up on it after someone mentioned restoring Byzantium as the Ottomans and being stuck with Ottoman ideas.

The decision to restore the Byzantine Empire, viewable in decisions/RestoreByzantineEmpire.txt, doesn't include the line "swap_free_idea_group = yes", which strikes me as a problem. It's simplicity itself to mod in, but that still leaves it out of ironman, which is undesirable. In the highly unlikely event that some Greek Orthodox state (Athens, perhaps) managed to survive the destruction of Byzantium and become powerful enough to revive it, is it really WAD that they possibly be stuck with generic national ideas? That really doesn't seem at all appropriate to me. Something to add to the next hotfix, maybe?

 

[RobRoy3]

I have no idea whether or not this was actually changed by the last patch, but I picked up on it after someone mentioned restoring Byzantium as the Ottomans and being stuck with Ottoman ideas.

The decision to restore the Byzantine Empire, viewable in decisions/RestoreByzantineEmpire.txt, doesn't include the line "swap_free_idea_group = yes", which strikes me as a problem. It's simplicity itself to mod in, but that still leaves it out of ironman, which is undesirable. In the highly unlikely event that some Greek Orthodox state (Athens, perhaps) managed to survive the destruction of Byzantium and become powerful enough to revive it, is it really WAD that they possibly be stuck with generic national ideas? That really doesn't seem at all appropriate to me. Something to add to the next hotfix, maybe?

Tag switches aren't compatible with ironman, either, I believe. So why not just mod it in? Maybe give them the specialty government type, too? Perhaps even reverse the religion/culture changes of the Ottoman decision?

Doubt it would make the priority list for a hotfix, but maybe something that could get into a future patch? Strikes me as fairly non-controversial.

 

[PAnZuRiEL]

Tag switches aren't compatible with ironman, either, I believe.

How do you mean? Tag switching by decision is certainly possible. It interferes with achievements, because the code for many of the nation-specific achievements checks what your tag was when you started the ironman game. That's why Sweden->Scandinavia can still get "Sweden Is Not Overpowered" and Poland->Commonwealth can still get "Poland Can Into Space".

Doubt it would make the priority list for a hotfix

I was under the impression that hotfixes were for both game-breaking bugs and very minor, easily-fixed things that had just been overlooked. Would be a shame if I was wrong about the latter, but oh well.